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MI5 warns UK faces most 'complex and interconnected' threat it has ever seen

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43 late-stage attack plots on the UK have been foiled since 2017 , head of MI5 says.

There has also been 20 Iran -backed plots since 2022 , the director general says.

Ken McCallum said the security service's counter-terrorism work still mostly involved Islamic extremism.

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